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How to Make The Budget

A budget should be created annually or semesterly. ​

Student Activities recommends five steps to plan your budget for the next fiscal year.  These steps enable you to plan a program and estimate the budget necessary to conduct it.​​

1. Review Purpose

Discuss the reasons that your student organization was established.  Review the purpose of your student organization as stated in your constitution and bylaws.

1. Develop Goals​

Consider what your student organization wishes to accomplish in the coming year and how you can do it. Develop goals and objectives that will help your student organization fulfill its purpose.​

1. 3. Design Program Components​

Design a program or activity for the next year that will help your student organization achieve its goals and objectives. Put your design in writing and include details such as how many people you think might attend and how much you estimate it will cost.  This design is called a program proposal.  Provide financial information such as print-offs or estimates from travel Web sites, online stores, etc. to back up your estimate.  You can also brainstorm ways to raise money to support these proposals, but remember that fundraising is not a guarantee.  You may create several program proposals for the semester or year. ​​

1. Prioritize Program Proposals​

Decide which of the program proposals are the most important to your student organization.  Number them according to priority.  The program proposal that is most important should be first.  The proposal that is second most important should be second, and so on.​​

1. Make Decisions​

Once the programs proposals are prioritized, decide how many of them your student organization can reasonably complete.  For example, you may have created three program proposals for the month of March, but after review, you determine that one is large-scale and costly and might make it difficult to complete the additional two programs.​

By following these five simple budget planning steps, you will make the creation of your student organization's budget much easier!  You will also know which events require the focus of your organizations members.  Be sure to periodically review your budget plans and make adjustments as needed.

Please consult the Constitution for budget and signing procedures.

Budget Information + Where to find the budget

General SAGA Budget Information

• generally, 40% of the budget goes to the graduating cohort, often for support of the thesis show, and 40% goes to activities for all grads, and 10% goes back into the SAGA account for administrative expenses
• however, each year a budget must be approved by the Full Membership so this is subject to each year's voting
• we hope to one day pay officers

Where do I find/ put the budget?

The Budget is in this Google Drive folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1n-5-PyLr9AQCSem6Q1mp7woPVdOkJ5jM?usp=sharing

the current budget, templates, and past ones are all in this folder.

Template

Make a separate budget for both actual and projected expenses:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1W8pvd9MZwPvNf-irwj5kVNKYb4ZQxQIist9VoA4dCrg/edit?usp=sharing

Current

2022/2023 projected budget:

2022/2023 actuals:

LINK--> Past Budgets